Eva Tokodi Adamík

Sandra: “And then she actually succeeded, already at the time when she was with you two, small children, so she managed to do that heroic act that no one really knows about. And it's actually that she helped the Reitman family emigrate and… ” Eva: "Yes." Sandra: "Then you know something, or what you actually know about it, or what you were even told at the time that was happening, or maybe she mentioned it when she mentioned it when she was actually older." Eva: "I'm actually about it, so I didn't know because I was little." Sandra: "That was in the fifty-second." Eva: “In the fifties, so I probably didn't notice anything, or just that a foreign woman was watching over us. The brother certainly perceived more because he was three years older, so a five-year-old already perceives more as a two-year-old child. So, I just know what they were telling me. I started wet pants, you know wet pants, and this is how you know that my father was not at home, my mother, my mother was not at home and a foreign woman was watching over us. Then, when I heard more about it, I only learned that my mothers helped the Reitmans, everything was fine. They told me that everything was fine. I didn't know that my mother got to Nitra, that she was taken from that street then, or that how much she suffered in the investigative body then, she was probably in pre-trial detention, I don't know what it was called then. Just, I didn't know how to read, I didn't know how to read the letters she wrote from prison. And then she just told me, and talked a little about it. The Reitmans managed to help, they left, they're fine, and we should forget what happened then. It was like this. And what I heard were snippets of talking to adults or neighbors. And when I was older, my mother started talking about it, but mainly because those political prisoners also came to us. The Yugoslavs who were condemned together at the time and talked about it more then, but in particular I never understood what had actually happened then. I knew little about Reitman, that Ivan Reitman was asleep, that they had taken him to the barn, the boat, and that they had taken them to Austria. From there they got to France and from there to Canada. It was like a fairy tale to me when someone got to Canada like this and we sometimes got packages, but never from them. ”

Sandra: "So your parents got married in the thirty-third." Eva: "In the thirty-third in Komárno." Sandra: "Which is far away, or even further before the outbreak, at all before the outbreak of war and the establishment of the Slovak state and arbitration." Eva: "Yes." Sandra: “What did they do before? Before these events at all. ” Eva: “So…” Sandra: "They don't have kids yet." Eva: “They had no children. Mom worked at the hospital, but as they got married, mom stayed home and traveled with my father on the boat. My father was a sailor and they were still on the ship. Although sometimes when he… my grandmother became ill, she was paralyzed at home, so sometimes my mother was at home with her, but my father was still on the Danube. The Danube boatman was. And they kept traveling together until my brother was born, and even then they traveled together until I was born. ” Sandra: "And when was the brother born?" Eva: "My brother was born in 1947." Sandra: "So after the war." Eva: "After the war." Sandra: "So they actually traveled like this the whole war, so on a ship?" Eva: "They also traveled during the war, yes." Sandra: "And maybe you know a little more about that, what situations they may have encountered during the war, during…" Eva: “They mentioned the war so much that there were strange conditions. They worked first for the Germans, or then they worked for the Russians. The Germans asked the Russians, the Russians asked the Germans how they were on the Danube. " Sandra: (sound) "Sorry." Eva: “And then my mother used to remember that there was a terrible feeling that during the war the corpses floated on the surface, on the water on the Danube. In fact, they still traveled that corpse around them. " Sandra: "They had some that stable route they walked or still…" Eva: “So either they traveled the lower route. That from Komárno to the Black Sea ... not entirely to the Black Sea, but to Bulgaria and then to the upper route to Regensburg. ”